On Apr 12, 2006, at 17:33, Lynne Cumming wrote:
Please oh please can someone help me! Having bought a new pair of
jeans at a
price I wouldn't normally pay (from Marks & Spencer's no less!) but did
because they fitted and were comfy - I went and knocked a bottle of
garlic
oil (olive oil base) over and it went down both legs. I washed them
with
Ariel and once dry saw the stains were still there,
Eek. Hope the wash had not *set* the stains; my general "policy" is
"treat first, wash second, panic last". Can't find my "Household Hints"
book to check (I'm old enough to go to books before I go to Internet
<g>), but "getting rid of oil stains" brought a whole slew of "oil
stains removal" responses on Google, so that might be a route to take.
This said... :)
Years and years ago, I accidentally dribbled some salad oil (home made:
olive oil and cider vinegar, garlic, mustard powder, salt, pepper) on a
(pure cotton) skirt I rather liked, and *nothing* worked to remove that
"stainless glass look" from the spots -- not treatment, not washing.
The skirt ended up in a "I'll think about it one day" pile for a couple
of years.
Then I went to UK (Oxford) in '88 and discovered a "miracle soap" -- a
*cake* of something called "Vanish". It was not the same thing as our
(US) Vanish. And the cake is not the same as the foam and liquid forms
of UK Vanish which appeared later (got those in '98 and am not at all
happy with them). But it seemed to be coping with stains better than
anything else I'd ever encountered, without leaving a big pale blob in
place of the stain.
So, as the last resort, I dampened the oily spot with cool water (as
recommended; the cake version of Vanish was originally formulated as a
laundry aid for campers who had little access to hot water) and rubbed
the soap into the stain. Left the soap-lather in for about 45 minutes
(*not* as recommended <g>) before tossing the skirt (*not* rinsed out)
into the washing machine with other laundry. The skirt came out
pristine -- neither the oily spot nor a "spot after spot" was to be
seen.
It's just *too bad* that I only got to enjoy the skirt for another
couple of years, after which my waist-line began its
middle-age-creep-up (*extremely* annoying, especially since my *weight*
has remained the same. Nobody likes to look like a hot dog <g>)...
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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